People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'

Let me pray for you.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

My words to my wife are to refresh, encourage and help bring her into her destiny.

The people who are most vulnerable to overextending themselves on behalf of ministry relationships are people who struggle with intimacy—both with God and others. Ministry can be a great place for them to feel connected and loved, but the truth is, without the accountability that only comes from covenant friendships, they are just being set up for burnout or compromise.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.